Tuesday 22 June 2010

Popular Music Video Conventions

The Music Video Shopping List!

- Band Shots, whole band shots and performance clips
- Shadows, mise-en-scene reflects an atmosphere, division on shot upon band members
- High lighting
- Bright lighting, not natural
- High angle/ low angle, special lighting effects
- Close-ups, and extreme close-ups
- Animation
- Colour effects, often monochrome
- Fast-pace editing
- Straight cuts
- Bright colours against a black and white background
- Panning
- No real sound effects
- Dubbed sounds
- Zooming in and out
- Montage


Depending on Genre

- Glamour/Popstar lifestyle
- Playing out the "Rockstar" lifestyle within the video
- Mean and moody men
- Seductive pose from the female artists
- Anti-establishment activity
- Deserted locations with straight forward narrative
- Gutiar solos
- Short Skirts and Cleveages
- Trying to portray a certain image
- Voyeurism (spying on people)
- Urban locations
- Dancing
- Crowd shots
- Destroyed enviroment
- Singing whist acting

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